Some of the most widespread flooding
in years has swept across Sub-Saharan Africa, from Ghana, Niger, Mali,
and Togo in the west to Ethiopia, Uganda, and Sudan in the east. In
the last 24 hours, the International Red Cross (IFRC) has added Burkina
Faso to its emergency rolls after 33 deaths were reported and more than
75-hundred homes destroyed in torrential rains. In addition, the
UN World Food Program (WFP) is appealing for three-point eight million
dollars to feed 470-thousand victims in Mauritania, where saturated supplies
are putting thousands at risk.